State v. Hicks

Judge HEDRICK

concurring in result.

I agree that the judgment must be arrested, and that the written verdict submitted to the jury is susceptible of more than one interpretation. However, I believe judgment should be arrested by this Court for the reasons to follow below.

Defendant was charged in a proper bill of indictment with the unlawful and willful possession of certain described property “knowing or having reason to believe the property to have been feloniously stolen, ... as the result of a breaking and entering of a business warehouse . . . and in that the value of the property exceeded…